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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
395 
Theophilus Higgons, whom the above initials 
represent, was himself a convert to the Church of 
Rome. 
It may be worth while making a further note, 
that the copy of the pamphlet before me belonged 
to Camden, and is described in his autograph, Gutl. 
Camdenj. Ex. dono Authoris. It forms one of a 
large collection of tracts and pamphlets, originally 
the property of Camden, which are now in the 
library of the dean and chapter here. 
Tt is curious that another document quoted by 
Mr. Craik in the same volume (p. 286. note,) seems 
to fix the meaning of a word or expression, of 
obscure signification, in the authorised translation 
of the Bible. In Judges, ix. 53. we read, “A cer- 
tain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abime- 
lech’s head, and all tobrake his skull.” I have 
heard some one, in despair at the grammatical con- 
struction of the latter clause, suggest that it might 
be an error for ‘‘also brake his skull;” and I 
have been told, that some printer or editor solved 
the difficulty by turning it into “and all to break 
his skull.” But in the Lieutenant of the Tower’s 
marginal notes on an inventory of the Countess 
of Hertford’s (Lady Katherine Grey) furniture, 
quoted by Mr. Craik from Lands. MS. 5. art. 41., 
he describes the sparrer for the bed as “ all to- 
broken, not worth ten pence.” There seems, there- 
fore, to have been a compound, “ to-breck, to- 
brake, to-broken” ( perfrango), of which the word 
in the “ Book of Judges” is the preterite. I may 
be exposing my ignorance, when I say, that the 
quotation in the Romance of the Peerage is the 
only other instance of its use I ever met with. 
Wituam H. Core. 
Cloisters, Westminster. 
The word “ to-break,” is not to be found in Nares, 
— Mr. Halliwell, in his Archaic Dictionary, has To- 
BROKE, broken in pieces: 
“ The gates that Neptunus made 
A thousand wynter theretofore, 
They have anon to-broke and tore.” 
From the Gower MS. Soc, Ant. 134. f. 46, 
The word occurs also in Chaucer (p. 549. ed. Urry), 
“ To-broken ben the Statutes bie in heven;” 
and also in the Vision of Piers Ploughman (p. 156. ed. 
Wright): 
“ The bagges and the bigirdles 
He hath to-broke them all.” 
And Mr. Wright very properly remarks, that “fo- 
prefixed in composition to yerbs of Anglo-Saxon 
origin, has the same force as the German zu, giving to 
the word the idea of destruction or deterioration.” ] 
NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HANDBOOK FOR 
LONDON. 
Lambeth Wells. — A place of public entertain- 
ment, first opened in 1697. It was celebrated for 
its mineral water, which was sold at one penny per 
quart. At the beginning of the eighteenth cen- 
tury it was provided with a band of music, which 
played at intervals during the day, and the price 
of admission was threepence. A monthly concert, 
under the direction of Starling Goodwin, organist 
of St. Saviour’s church, Southwark, was held here 
in 1727. 
Hickford'’s Rooms, Panton Street, Haymarket.— 
These rooms, under the name of “ Hickford’s Dan- 
cing Rooms,” were in existence as early as 1710. 
In 1738, they were opened as the “ Musick-room.” 
A contemporary account says :— 
“The band was selected from the Opera House; 
but the singularity most attractive consisted of an 
organ combined with a harpsichord, played by clock- 
work, which exhibited the movements of an orrery and 
air-pump, besides solving astronomical and geographical 
problems on two globes, and showing the moon’s age, 
with the Copernican system in motion.” 
In 1740, Mr. Galliard’s benefit is announced to 
take place “at Mr. Hickford’s Great Room in 
Brewer Street, Golden Square.”— See the Daily 
Post of March 31. The “ Great Room” is now 
known as “ Willis’s Dancing Academy.” 
The Music Room in Dean Street, Soho.—The 
Oratorio of Judas Maceabeus was performed here 
in great splendour in 1760, It was afterwards 
the auction room of the elder Christie ; and is now 
“Caldwell’s Dancing Academy.” George III. fre-~ 
quently honoured this “ musick-room” with his 
presence. 
The Musie Room in Charles Street, Covent 
Garden : — 
«The Consort of Musick, lately in Bow Street, is 
removed next Bedford Gate, in Charles Street, Covent 
Garden, where a room is newly built for that purpose.” 
—Lond. Gaz. Feb. 19. 1690. 
« A Consort of Music, with several new voices, to be 
performed on the 10th instant, at the Vendu in Charles 
Street, Covent Garden.”—Ibid. March 6. 1691. 
In 1693 was published Thesaurus Musicus, being a 
Collection of the “ Newest Songs performed at their 
Majesties’ Theatres, and at the Consorts in Villier 
Street, in York Buildings, and in Charles Street, 
Covent Garden.” 
In the proposals for the establishment of a 
Royal Academy in 1720, the subscription books 
are advertised as being open, amongst other places, 
“at the Musick Room in Charles Street, Covent 
Garden.” 
Coleman's Musie House. — A house of entertain- 
ment, with a large and well planted garden, known 
as “Coleman’s Musick House,” was offered for 
sale in 1682. It was situated near Lamb’s Conduit, 
and was demolished upon the building of Ormond 
Street. 
White Conduit House. —The old tavern of this 
name was erected in the reign of Charles I. The 
workmen are said to have been regaling them- 
selves upon the completion of the building, at the 
instant the king was beheaded at Whitehall. 
